Bus Stop Gets Pair Started

TAMARAC — The race for mayor of this city doesn't start until March, but debate between two of the candidates may have already begun.

Mayor Joe Schreiber and challenger Diane Glasser faced off last week over a change to a neighborhood road off Nob Hill Road that inadvertently canceled bus service to Glasser's neighborhood.

Earlier this year, officials prohibited drivers from turning south on to Nob Hill Road from westbound Westwood Drive. A truck driver had been killed at the intersection after another driver turned left on to Nob Hill Road last year, Schreiber said.

"There's been a number of problems with that intersection," he said. "It's a very dangerous place to make a left turn."

But when officials with Broward County installed a sign at the intersection requiring westbound drivers to turn north only, they inadvertently eliminated a bus route that served residents of Westwood 3, where Glasser is president of the community association.

Glasser criticized the city at a commission meeting Wednesday for allowing the bus service to be interrupted. She denied using the public forum to gain exposure for her campaign.

"I'm not grandstanding," she said. "I'm dealing with the issues of my community."

Schreiber said city officials are working with the county to restore bus service to Westwood 3 along a different route.

But Glasser and commissioner Marc L. Sultanof, whose district encompasses the intersection, criticized officials with the city and the county for installing the sign without first consulting Westwood 3 residents.

"We have to remedy this problem," Sultanof said. "This is my district, and I wasn't notified that anything was being done."